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Overnight Jam: Billy Talent, "Afraid of Heights"

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lawhawk8/18/2016 6:09:50 am PDT

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see Trump somehow managed to get his phone back and is tweeting once again nonsensical ramblings indicating a lunatic mind.

He’s now rambling on how he’ll be known as Mr. Brexit.

For what exactly?

As Geoff points out, Washington was the original Mr. Brexit.

Trump isn’t even tangentially involved in British politics and needed to get schooled on what Brexit was.

Meanwhile, the GOP is busy setting up the Permanent Committee to Investigate Hillary Clinton:

Oh, if you think this is just a temporary thing, you’ll be mistaken. They know that they don’t have a political agenda or a policy platform that has a chance of winning, so they’re left with investigating Clinton for the 100th time. They are hoping to catch her or people she works with in a perjury trap, because they also know there’s nothing there that reaches the level warranting so many investigations in the first place.

They’ve nearly given up on Benghazi except they’ll use the email “scandal” to reach back and give Benghazi some CPR.

The GOP never gave any of the attacks on US diplomatic facilities during a GOP administration this kind of scrutiny. Ever. It’s a witch hunt pure and simple.

And it’s a clash of GOP memes - that she’s simultaneously both the most evil and diabolical person to ever have a say in US politics and the most inept and caught. How else can you explain right wing belief that Clinton has killed so many and gotten away with it.

All this is going on with the following backdrop:

The GOP refuses to act on a clean Zika funding bill, which means that the federal government is delaying on giving assistance to southern states dealing with mosquito control as well as basic research into Zika and how to prevent the disease’s spread.

The GOP also has a nominee in Trump whose top honcho is up to his eyeballs in connections to the Russians, complete with payments that can’t be explained (and are likely illegal). Yeah, that’s Paul Manafort. But the rest of the Trump campaign isn’t any better, having gotten an influx of alt-right extremists who want to double down on Trump’s hate/bigotry to unleash to bigot brigade in November.

After all, who else but Trump would claim that he’s trying to reach out to minorities by talking to an all white audience in Wisconsin.